Turricula washingtoniana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TurriculaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
7 occurrences of Turricula washingtoniana on record, most of them in the Oligocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
7 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
3 formations
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The named rock units Turricula washingtoniana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Turricula washingtoniana and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Turricula washingtoniana and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Pitar3 sites
- Crenella porterensis2 sites
- Dentalium porterensis2 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis2 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis2 sites
- Polinices hornii2 sites
- Spisula packardi yokamensis2 sites
- Spisula rushi aragoensis2 sites
- Whitneyella sinuata aragoensis2 sites
- Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis1 site
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa1 site
- Acrilla (Ferminoscala) aragoensis1 site
- Admetula1 site
- Ancistrolepis clarki1 site
- Ancistrolepis landesi1 site
- Anechinocardium weaveri1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
- Brachiodontes1 site
- Bruclarkia thor1 site
- Bursa washingtoniana1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Cardiomya alkiensis1 site
- Cochlodesma bainbridgensis1 site
- Conchocele bisecta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Turricula washingtoniana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington4
- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon2
- A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington1
Each of the 7 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Turricula washingtoniana
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- Credit
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- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turricula washingtoniana was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTurricula through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weaver 1912)